You are whom you can credibly claim to be. Brand identity is the comprehensive expression of your aspirational self-image. Built upon the foundations of smart segmentation, distinctive value proposition, and clear competitive positioning, it is the final step in brand development. It’s important to remember that your brand’s value ultimately depends on just one thing: the meaning attached to it by the buyers and users in your target market.Read more

Tom Mohr, Founder and CEO of CEO Quest, presents a research-backed, best practice approach to crafting mission, vision, and values statements that set the foundations of company culture and successful scaling in your tech startup. Guest David Kopp, CEO of Healthline Media, shares how mission, vision, and values work drove behaviors that directly impacted high growth in 2016. This webinar covers material from Chapter 3: Vision, Mission and Values in ScalingRead more

Tom Mohr, Founder and CEO of CEO Quest, presents an overview of his research-backed, best practice framework and methods for tech startup company design to accelerate growth and successfully scale your business. This webinar covers material from Chapter 1: Revenue Engine Overview in Scaling the Revenue Engine, by Tom Mohr.

Proper positioning packs punch and parts the pack. Competitive positioning is a bold, defensible claim. You start with the market and top priority segments you serve. You consider the competitive dynamic. You evaluate major trends. You glean your essential value as captured in your Value Proposition, Chapter 5 of Scaling the Revenue Engine. Using all of these (the market, competitor positions, trends, and your key value attributes), you createRead more

Your company’s value proposition and its value proposition are linked. As a tech company CEO, you understand the power of technology to change the world. Every sector of the global economy is under continuous invention and recreation; technology’s forward march is relentless. In this march, tech companies (led by their CEOs) stride forward in a long, ragged line. Some peter out. Some fall away. Only the best accelerate. For theRead more

Smart segmentation sparks scaling. You have a product. It makes the unworkable workable; the unavoidable and urgent easier. On some dimension of personal or corporate need (status, affiliation, safety, ease of use, cost, speed, etc.), your product wins big. Segmentation can only emerge from this: the solid foundation of a compelling product. Without it, you have nothing. Once you’ve nailed basic product / market fit, however, proper segmentation isRead more